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An mmhmm is softer, sweeter than yes— out of my mother’s mouth, a bright song—how beautiful, this flavor of English, best served over the phone, best from Mother, now
One way they enter is to pause, hooved, indelicate among the trees where elms and oaks rise in a remnant forest. Ears cupped toward the slightest sound
This autumn morning, after the freeze, They held a summit of the trees. Motions were made and seconded, And all the ochre, brown, and red Snowed down. Each ruined crown agrees
Blissed with the notion of forbidden lust, lothario of forever-mantled satisfaction, prolong this unreal engagement—senses multiplied and shunted in constant theme and variation—prolapse, my wandering